David Maranha - Cai​-​Bem

Interesting this album is titled Cai-Bem. The Portuguese to English translation loosely means goes good or sits well. David Maranha's new full length on Tanuki Records steers far from ambient float and spiritual fluff. These sounds do not sit well and the going is in another direction from good. So Cai-Bem? A smile when it came time to name this or some knowledge yet to be understood by the listening world. Theses musicians have created, or opened is a better term, a small dimensional valve. Noise is elongated and pulled from our reality. A droning epic slipping through a spacial gap to small for so much talent. This creates a sonic environment that is slightly uncomfortable. Like sound is being pulled out of you rather than flowing into your thoughts. Cai-Bem is an oddity with twisted beauty so askew, music scholars will need to investigate.

David Maranha gathered multiple hands in the composition of the album. His fellow creators moved in new directions, all playing unaccustomed instruments. This group includes Margarida Garcia, Miguel Abras, Manuel Mota, and of course David Maranha. With organ, bass, shruti box, drums, vocals, and tape manipulation, Cai-Bem is a slow sonic upheaval. High pitched droning mixed with deep cyclic resonating bass. Out of phase percussion keeps the lid from screwing on tight. Like a high pressure leak, the entire listen is in the dangerous red zone of exploding. Thanks to this experienced bomb disposal unit, these sounds let off tremendous energy, with no harm to consciousnesses in close proximity. Aural breath just behind your shoulder, the sound sending shivers, the source shrouded in obscurity. A truly haunting escapade through a black and white negative of Cai-Bem.

This is the first full length vinyl release for the Belgium label Tanuki Records. Number twenty eight in the Tanuki catalog. The going will be difficult for future vinyl label releases to equal this metaphysical debut. A completely unique sonic experience. Available from the labels bandcamp page.









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